47. Escape After Burial
The prominent scholar, Aga Mirza Mahmud Shirazi has also narrated the following story:
In Karbala Moalla, the late Sayyid Zayn ul-Abidin Kashi had a servant, who was a native of Tabriz. (I forget his name). He was a righteous man with a religious temperament and followed proper beliefs and guidance.
He narrated: Before moving to Karbala, I had a coffee shop in Tabriz, near a graveyard. I also lived in that same place. One night the climate was very cold. I closed the shop door and lay down. Suddenly someone started knocking the door hard. I opened the door, but that person ran away. The second time he knocked harder. When I opened the door, again he fled.
I said to myself: He has harassed me too much. So I picked up a cane and sat behind the door ready to give him a sound thrashing this time. He knocked the third time and I opened the door and chased him. He scampered to the graveyard and disappeared at one spot. I stopped there and looked for him here and there. I thought that he might have hidden somewhere. So I lay down there waiting for him to come out.
When I placed my car on the ground, I heard a soft sound as if someone was sobbing below the earth. I noted that it was a fresh grave and probably someone was buried there just that evening. I understood that he must have been in a swoon and that he regained consciousness in the grave. I felt great pity and started digging the grave to save him. When the grave opened, I saw a boy in it, who asked: Where am I? Where is my father? Where is my father? I gave my dress to him and brought him to my shop. but I could not recognize him. I questioned him slowly, till I came to know about his locality and home address.
I went out the same night, made inquiries about his parents and informed them. They came and took their son home, safe and sound.
I concluded that the one knocking my door was an unseen being appointed to save that young man.